From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer We launched Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) on December 7, 2007. At the time, we wrote: “We believe that each of our members, at some point, wi...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/12/mesh-in-hibernation/
From MESH Admin A journalist has described President Obama’s approach to foreign policy as “applying the same tools to international diplomacy that he once used as a community organizer on Ch...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/12/obamas-approach-to-russia-and-iran/
From Walter Laqueur David Engerman is the author of a new study of American Sovietology during the Cold War and its impact on U.S. policy. In a recent article in Foreign Affairs he expresses his ...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/12/from-sovietology-to-jihadology/
From MESH Admin The Middle East policies of the Obama administration in its first year are the subject of a new number of Middle East Papers by Martin Kramer. The paper (delivered last month as a...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/12/how-not-to-fix-the-middle-east/
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Mark Moyar is professor ...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/12/a-question-of-command/
From Raymond Tanter On November 27, 2009, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted a strong resolution that expressed “serious concern that Iran has constructed an enrichment facilit...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/11/will-more-sanctions-against-iran-work/
From David Schenker In October, Lebanon was elected to one of ten non-permanent member seats on the United Nations Security Council. Come January 2010, Lebanon will assume Asia’s “Arab League...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/11/lebanon-on-un-security-council/
From Mark N. Katz There has been much press coverage about how the Saleh regime in Yemen is facing important security challenges. There is the Houthi rebellion in the north of the country which h...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/11/whither-yemen/
From Daniel Byman Saudi Arabia is once again sailing in dangerous waters as it increases its military involvement in Yemen. The recent New York Times article on the subject is welcome, because th...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/11/saudis-into-yemen/
From Matthew Levitt Even as the West seeks to engage Iran in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, Iran continues to arm rogue regimes and terrorist groups in blatant violation of UN Secu...
https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/11/disrupting-irans-weapons-smuggling/